ST. PAUL -- USA Today this morning takes a look at Sarah Palin's claim in her speech last week that she opposed the so-called Bridge to Nowhere. It finds that Palin's opposition wasn't always so strong:

"We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge, and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative," Palin said in August 2006, according to the Ketchikan Daily News.

The Anchorage Daily News quoted her in October 2006 as saying she would continue state funding for the bridge. "The window is now, while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist," she said.

Palin, however, backed off her support when national attention turned the bridge into an embarrassment for Alaska.

She changed her mind, he said, when "she saw that Alaska was being perceived as taking from the country and not giving, and that impression bothered her and she wants to change it. … I think that Sarah Palin is someone who has the courage to reevaluate situations as they developed." ...

In September 2007, Palin's office issued a new release saying the governor had "cancelled all state work on the Gravina Island bridge project, which gained national fame as a symbol of what critics said was wrong with federal budget earmarks."

So technically Palin's claim in her speech was true. She did oppose the bridge -- but after she was for it, perhaps.

ST. PAUL -- USA Today this morning takes a look at Sarah Palin's claim in her speech last week that she opposed the so-called Bridge to Nowhere. It finds that Palin's opposition wasn't always so strong:

"We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge, and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative," Palin said in August 2006, according to the Ketchikan Daily News.

The Anchorage Daily News quoted her in October 2006 as saying she would continue state funding for the bridge. "The window is now, while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist," she said.

Palin, however, backed off her support when national attention turned the bridge into an embarrassment for Alaska.

She changed her mind, he said, when "she saw that Alaska was being perceived as taking from the country and not giving, and that impression bothered her and she wants to change it. … I think that Sarah Palin is someone who has the courage to reevaluate situations as they developed." ...

In September 2007, Palin's office issued a new release saying the governor had "cancelled all state work on the Gravina Island bridge project, which gained national fame as a symbol of what critics said was wrong with federal budget earmarks."

So technically Palin's claim in her speech was true. She did oppose the bridge -- but after she was for it, perhaps.